Austin, TX (Del Valle South)

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the Del Valle South neighborhood in Austin are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the Del Valle South neighborhood, 82.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 17.6% of the residents employed.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Del Valle South neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (26.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the Del Valle South neighborhood in Austin, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (25.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.9%), along with some Jamaican ancestry residents (2.0%), among others. In addition, 11.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in Del Valle South neighborhood spend longer than one hour commuting one-way to work (50.0% of working residents), one of the longer commutes in America, which is a potential downside for residents of this neighborhood.

Here most residents (50.0%) ride the bus to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (50.0%) . The bus provides a valuable service in the Del Valle South neighborhood of Austin by getting a lot of residents to and from work daily, reducing the costs of commuting and reducing some congestion on the roads as well.